---------- Forwarded message --------- Gönderen: Funda Oral <fundaoral@gmail.com> Date: 21 Tem 2023 Cum 11:51 Subject: Public Space, Plurality and Freedom according to Hannah Arendt To: World wide Open Space Technology email list < oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Hi everybody, What Hannah Arendt describes seems to point out "Open Space Technology". Have a nice weekend. Funda Oral "The “political” which Arendt seeks to revive in her work is a concept which both links and transcends these notions of natality and plurality. Its core is freedom: Freedom for Arendt is not simply liberty from outside forces or private necessities, but a freedom enabled by natality, by the capacity to make beginnings, a freedom expressed in action. *It is the human freedom to act, to speak, and to create shared spaces through interaction with others.* This interaction requires that a *plurality* of human beings communicate with each other about the terms of their *coexistence*. Plurality is thus both a basic existential fact of human existence which requires* interaction, communication and cooperation*, so that *a shared life with others becomes possible*, and plurality enables action and speech within *shared spaces*, because interaction is contingent upon the presence of others. At the intersection of these two notions we encounter the true meaning of the political: It is the *realization of freedom through interaction with others in public spaces.*" Andrea Thuma